Bobwhite Quail

A decade long challenge has reached its goal in Pennsylvania. To understand this accomplishment, it is astounding to realize a game bird absolutely disappeared out of its range in Pennsylvania. There were no conservation measures to protect this game bird because they were abundant in numbers. Then one day, due to over hunting and habitat loss, there were none.

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Congratulations, Pennsylvania.

Personal interests of Republicans come first.

Beside the crony capitalism, the Republicans are enamored with Trump because of “the guilty” among them. There are Republican Congresspersons that can be indicted for the  January 6, 2021 attempted coup. There are heroes of the day such as Former Vice President Mike Pence, but, there are others guilty of supporting the attempted coup such as Hawley. “The Party” is running scared and want majorities in all branches to change the face of American democracy for their own reasons and not the benevolent purposes of the American people. 

TEPCO

I would encourage anyone interested to witness the work that has been carried out at the Fukushima Daiichi Plant since the tsunami. It appears to be well organized to provide protection from any repeat catastrophe. Worker safety appears to be high on the list of priorities. I may be wrong, but, I find the radiation containment of even the remaining original structures impressive. The company continues its reclamation of areas still in disarray with melted fuel rods and infrastructure.

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Typical Cowardly Trump Strategy

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Still yet another strategized appeal by Trump. We all know the outcomes, but, that doesn’t matter because Trump newly infused with RNC money is again appealing a well written judicial decision.

“Help me, help me, help me,” the big bad New York State is after me (click here). What a jerk Trump is. The prosecutor actually has to advise him how to pay his LIABILITIES to other VICTIMS!

Trump can’t find his way out of paper bag yet alone be a president of ANYTHING!

“It is so unfair, I am such a great guy and have been burdened with stupid people I hired. This is all so unfair.” 

Pharmacies are price gouging Ozempic

The story gets a little worse in some cases. When patients are unable to afford the higher deductible the pharmacy charges the insurance companies anyway without dispensing the medication or trashing it. Yep. It is called fraud. There is one known case with a CVS pharmacy that needed corporate approval to reverse their “take” when the patient then asked for the 28 day supply. Part of the reason these events occur is because of vicious competition with brick and mortar stores and online pharmacies. The online pharmacies, for some reason, are doing it cheaper. In my opinion there is nothing like talking to a pharmacist in person. Why isn’t Big Pharma offering their own online pharmacy? They like that retail merchandise too much. But, this price gouging on Ozempic is highly unethical.

USA southern border…

…it is a divided decision (click here) and the majority provided a political answer not one based in constitutional competency.

From time beginning any arrested at the USA federal sovereign border has always been conducted by the USA Border Patrol. The decision blurs that line seeing confusion. 

Texas law enforcement officers have enough to do and now they are supposed to replace border agents. It is going make the border weaker simply by the confusion that will result. Law enforcement officers have dangerous jobs, they don’t need more confusion to their responsibilities.

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Did I read that right, in that Coney-Barrett punitively stated if the 5th Circuit doesn’t rule soon the Supreme Court will take the Trump immunity case?

Interesting. It sounds like the Supremes on the political right already have their opinions that the President has immunity no matter what, even when criminality is evident.

Ya know, Coney-Barrett, Clarence and Ginny have a lot riding on Trump. Coney-Barrett is protective of her religious supremacy. Clarence has at the very least ethical issues and Ginny was just about as guilty as Trump in inspiring the crimes of January 6th. 

There are strong evangelical undercurrents in this Supreme Court majority. I think we can continue to expect unconstitutional decisions from the Robert’s court.

Israel

I believe both leaders of the USA and Israel are more than capable to secure Israel’s citizens from danger. That is after all the legitimate reason for the war. 

I also think The West has a challenge to protect Israel while at the same time ensuring the lives of the Palestinian people that remain in Gaza. This is not a task for just the USA or Israel alone. I might first qualify this response by saying the Palestinians have been no friend to the American people and absolutely enemies to the citizens of Israel.

As an ally to Israel the USA has a great deal of responsibility to its security. That carries brevity. At the same time President Biden has an affinity with global security and peace as well as great respect for the world courts and rightfully so. Israel’s Mossad and IDF must be consulted regarding the arrival and distribution of humanitarian aid. If that had been done from the beginning rather than confronting Israel’s war theater this may already be over. The profound disrespect for the war theater has resulted in deaths of Palestinians and UN personnel.

There is no doubt to me the IDF moves on the information of intelligence gathering and strategies of commanders. Let me state the obvious, once a war strategy is made it will be put in motion regardless of impulsive movements of civilians. 

Gaza is a war theater and one in which terrorists continue to exist and seek to kill Israelis. That reality is very difficult to secure away from violence and death. Gaza simply is not that big a patch of land to carve out a safety zone. Besides that, it is still a strategy of the terrorists to use the citizens of Gaza as human shields. The terrorists have no respect for the lives of Palestinians. They move into the groups of remaining Palestinians and hide there while carrying out attacks against Israelis. What is the global response to that dynamic? Leave them alone? Accept that as if a measure of peace? 

If President Biden is successful in finding a way forward to protect the Palestinian people that has to be respected by the global community. Hamas and other terrorist groups still remain. They do not and will not respect the Palestinian people. That has to be dealt with if Palestine is to be a sovereign power CAPABLE of maintaining peace and security for its citizens. That means Iran stops its backing of terrorist networks and allows any current military capacity of those networks to be depleted to end their capacity of killing. That in turn means  “Arabia” and communists does a complete about face in ANY support of violent networks and/or individuals. 

So.

The UN needs to join the USA, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority to secure a future for Palestinians. That goes for the global community as well. If the current divisions continue then there is no viable means of securing futures for Palestinian children.

I remind that of the “Palestinians” dead half were Hamas terrorists. Of the other half of the dead were all human shields, including children. There is no secure hospital in Gaza because the terrorists continue to use them as headquarters and arsenals for weapons. That is a greater humanitarian concern than anything Israel can do.

No Western Power wants genocide of any people. That value has been an overriding entity with The West since WWII. Any complaint other than those value systems is nothing but intended to undermine the secure sovereignty of these benevolent and peaceful nations of people. 

Immigration

Slicing and dicing the USA border into zones with different regulations is about the worst idea ever thunk up.

The federal government oversees the borders of the USA not Texas. 

The “Ports of Entry” have the greatest success in drug trafficking arrests. It is ridiculous to take attention away from those areas to place emphasis on benign human beings. We have a profound drug trafficking problem with cartels that want to kill Americans. The law enforcement focus should remain where it is most successful.

To back up that perspective, Christopher Wray made testimony to Congress there are dangerous people crossing the border and cited fentanyl as his concern in the very next statement. The greatest areas of success in ending this danger is the best approach to the USA southern border. 

As stated many times before on this blog the humanitarian crisis south of the USA that drives people to cross the USA southern border must be addressed from inside other sovereign countries to empower those freely elected governments to end corruption and foster economic well being of the people, that includes the effects of the climate crisis.

It seems ridiculous to me to expect benign human beings to understand that crossing the southern border is wrong and dangerous. They come from different cultures and languages with the idea that they can work hard and earn their right to be a good citizen. The idea they are turned away and even sent back violates their idea of the USA and a morality and esteem they have about Americans. When they are deported, they become repeat offenders, try again, and are counted two and three times in the statistics Republicans live to cite as the problem.

There is crime that can result of their arrival here if they are diverted by gangs when the government fails to address them in meaningful ways. The migrants do not speak the language or are met with opportunity to do so. That language barrier is huge and will result in cultural differences and crime. The men left a country full of violence and will expect to face violence all along their travel and arrival. So, these problems are not being met with solutions so much as resistance and rejection.

IVF

The Republicans, of all people in the USA, should be backing all human reproduction technology because they deregulate and poison the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat; ie: Flint. Such extremist practices ultimately will cause human sterilization, thus needing every form of human reproduction available, otherwise, they will lose their coveted military.

Oh, I forgot, the Lord will provide.

When President Biden talks…

…about the auto industry in the USA it is factual. More stable jobs. Better pay. Record profits for stockholders.

When Trump talks about the auto industry it is threats against our allies’ economies by instituting high tariffs on their imported cars.

Wall Street should be careful about siding with a radical like Trump. Trump is a racketeer that thinks nothing about rewarding intimidation and violence. He is bad for profits and real confidence in the free market system.

Trump as a candidate for President will be able to access Classified Intelligence that he cannot now. There is a good chance he will be seeking money from the sale of that information to his communist friends, including undesirable members of NATO such as Viktor Orban.

“Bloodbath?”

Trump should know when a radical like him calls for violence he could be the subject of it.

Communism

The course plotted for democracy in Russia is clearly demonstrated with the extended occupation of Vladimir Putin at the top of Russian government.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Ireland won back to back titles (click here).

Grindavik, Iceland

In an attempt to offer an effective view for the people of Grindavik; perhaps the government of Iceland needs to take a different view of the areas. Perhaps it is time for the government to claim Grindavik and southern Iceland too dangerous to repopulate. That may apply to “The Blue Lagoon.” 

I have been to the Blue Lagoon and absolutely adored it and my time in Iceland. But, danger is danger and when canvassing Earth in general there has been a lot of tectonic plate activity in the past decade and recent years, including the displacement of a “hot spot” in Hawaii.

The people of Iceland are fantastic and I wish them well and happiness. It is a time to reflect on the safety of all their people and the stability of homes where children grow up.

Geoengineering continued…

When ocean shipping exhaust is viewed as a solution to produce “shade” on Earth that is resignation of science rather than the implementation of science. Allowing shade will also bring elements like soot to the troposphere and then albedo is defeated.

The best idea (and we all do want the best ideas, correct?) is to return Earth’s natural processes rather than compromising them further.

There is current DISCOVERY that isn’t committed to journals yet that the oceans are ailing. It is time to implement the geoengineering of ocean seeding of iron to bring food sources to baleen whales in the way of phytoplankton.

The phytoplankton, especially algae in the upper 30 feet of the surface ocean, are vital to ocean life. Phytoplankton are primary producers and in large seeding projects will result in the reduction of CO2 and the production of planetary oxygen. It is time to throw caution to the wind and feed the oceans to escalate the production of primary producers.

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I think I make my point. It is time for science to take the front seat rather than commercial interests that compromise outcomes rather than solve the problem. 

Click here. It is going to take a lot more than $25 million to help Earth. If one wants to view the climate crisis as a war against greenhouse gases that might better describe the scope of the funding needed to get this done.

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Geoengineering

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has computer modeling established in its funding to begin iron seeding of the ocean. There is considerable research already conducted over decades of time that would encourage not just computer modeling but actual physical seeding to begin.

Example: (click here) Page through article from beginning results in an understanding of the complexity of scientific investigation to remove CO2 from the troposphere.

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500 square miles…

…of ice absent from the Arctic Ocean. When ice is insufficient to cool the world’s oceans they heat (click here.)

The reason there is no Arctic Ocean ice is because air temperatures are melting it and/or never forming it. It is called heat exchange from clouds migrating from the tropics to the Arctic Circle. This has been occurring with global vortexes since October 4, 2002 when the ice river C Zero in Antarctica reversed flow direction. It was a major global event.

Ice has to exist in enough volume at the poles and other ice structures like the Greenland Ice Sheet in order to keep Earth’s troposphere cool.

Ice is melting because Earth’s  troposphere has high levels of greenhouse gases. 

There is a complete record on this blog.

End of discussion.

It is laughable.

A man that gas lights an entire country filed a complaint about untruthfulness.

Laughable!

Rule of Law defended

Congratulations to D.A. Willis.

She is a very brave and brilliant woman. It was obvious she is very respected in Fulton County. I admire her.

As a side note, personal, true and recent story:

A friend of the family lost his elderly mother to cancer. He was cleaning her room and packing personal effects and clothing. During his cleaning he found $5000.00 in cash in varying locations and denominations and a diamond bracelet in a secret draw in a jewelry box. 

The world is not neat in having every cash dollar or precious item backed by paperwork.

Israel

Senator Schumer’s call for early elections in Israel is not a completely unique idea. There have been some news articles about that subject in Israel’s media. There is also speculation that Prime Minister Netanyahu would not fair well in those elections. So, I think Senator Schumer is lending his voice to empower those that would like new elections. 

I hate to state the obvious, but, UN food distribution is mostly ineffective for many reasons including corruption in Gaza. There is no governance in Gaza except for the IDF, therefore, there are reports of black markets using the supplies sent by the UN. 

It seems obvious to me that aid delivery has to occur with the presence of the IDF to ensure the people are receiving it. I think it is problematic for NGOs to deliver supplies to the Palestinians. The NGO personnel die if the IDF sees a member of Hamas at the food delivery cite and are successful in firing at Hamas. It is for that reason the supplies arriving to the people should be supervised by Israel to prevent theft, exploitation and supplies being diverted to Hamas or other terrorists still in Gaza.